A translation from Massi’s original French, this book provides a fascinating, humorous and easy to read history of the duel. The romantic ideas perpetuated by movies and literature can be put aside as Massi goes into some unique, rare accounts of duels. Diligently transcribed and designed by Kirk Lawson, “History of Duelling” is a quick, fun and easy read.

I'm looking forward to the Longhurst re-publication; originals are very hard to come by and that one was revised too often, losing much in translation.

I'm at pp26 of the ~110 pages. It's image heavy so I expect it to take some time but the results are pretty good so far. I could have wished for a little higher res on the pics but I think that it will not be particularly noticeable when it hits paper and it doesn't obfuscate the intention of the photo anyhow so I'm just wishing for gold when I've already got silver, so to speak. :)